Month: January 2018

By GERRI MCDONALD Special to Atmore News Perdido kindergarten student Finley Jones had some special guests follow her to school this week – two baby pygmy goats. The children in Mrs. Brooke Drinkard’s class quickly fell in love with the babies, as they took turns bottle feeding them. The twin goats belong to the Baldwin County High School agriculture department, and were born a couple days before Christmas. Unfortunately, their mom…

By GERRI MCDONALD Special to Atmore News Perdido Middle School seventh-grader Ceanna Livermore, an oboist with the school’s middle school band, was recently selected to participate in the Baldwin County Middle School Honor Band. She was one of 82 students from the county’s eight middle schools to be selected after an audition process. The Honor Band was conducted by Natalie Hughes, Director of Bands at Semmes Middle School in Mobile.…

By GERRI MCDONALD Special to Atmore News Perdido Middle School students once again finished among the top in the state during the 10-week Stock Market Game competition. Eighth graders Justin Brunson, Drew Turner, Ayden Scarborough and Braxton Scarborough finished fourth with final portfolio earnings of $112,479.31. Placing fourth in the state earned the team $75 and SMG drawstring bags. Students began the competition with $100,000 to invest in stocks, bonds and/or mutual…

Kam Drinkard, a fifth-grade student at Perdido Elementary / Middle School, won the school competition of the National Geographic Bee on January 19, and a chance at a $50,000 college scholarship. The school Bee, at which students answered questions on geography, was the first round in the 30th annual National Geographic Bee, a geography competition designed to inspire and reward students’ curiosity about the world. Thousands of schools around the…